Sequencing the B Cell Receptor Repertoires of Antibody-Deficient Individuals With and Without Infection Susceptibility.
Yoong Wearn LimNeftali Jose RamirezMichael A AsensioYao ChiangGabriele MüllerPavla MrovecovaNoriko MitsuikiMáté KrauszNadezhda Camacho-OrdonezKlaus WarnatzAdam S AdlerBodo GrimbacherPublished in: Journal of clinical immunology (2023)
Antibody-deficient patients with infection susceptibility who needed IgG-RT had more diverse peripheral antibody repertoires that were less diverged from germline and thus may not be as optimal for targeting pathogens, possibly contributing to infection susceptibility.